Improvement in washing-apparatus



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WashV Boiler.

- Patented Jian. 14,

- ditched gunna @anni @wird JOHN T. GROSE, OFy UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM E. KINNEAB, OF, SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 98,58?, dated January 4, 1870.

IMPRQ'WEMENT IN' WASHING-APPARATUS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it 'may concern Figure `2 is -a detail vertical section ofthe same,

taken through theliney y, lig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.-

My invention has for its object to furnish a simple, convenient, and etcient machine, by which the clothes l.---will be quickly and thoroughly washed by the circulation of steam and bot water, and which shall be so constructed as to allow the dirty water t-o be drawn oind replaced with clean hot water when desired; an

It .consists in the arrangement of the various parts of the apparatus as hereinafter more fully described.

A is a furnace, which I prefer to make conical, but which may be made of any other convenient form, and which is surrounded with a boiler, B, inavhich the water is heated.

Fuel is introduced into the furnace A, through an opening, a1,iu its upper part, above the boiler B, as shown in figs. 1 and 2.

Care two pipes, leading out from the lower part of the boiler B, and which may be connected with said boiler separately, or with a single connection-pipe, as shown in lig. 2.

The pipes C are provided with stop-cocks c', so that the water may be allowed to circulate through bot-h, either, or neither ot' said pipes, as may be desired.

The upper" eiids ofthe pipe O are securely connected with the bottoms of the wash-tubs D, or other receiving-vessels.

The pipes Cshould be made in two parts coupled together, 'so that the tubs D may be detached, and replaced with` Steamers for steaming food for cattle, hogs, etc., or with other vessels, according to the purpose for which the apparatus is to be used.

E are two pipes, the lower ends of which are connected with the upper part ofthe boiler B, either separately or by a single connecting-pipe, as; may be desii-ed. 'lhe upper ends of the pipes E are connected with the bottoms ot the vessels D, preferably with the middle part of said bottoms, as shown in iig. 2.

-The pipes E are provided with' stop-cocks e', so

that the water or steam may be allowed to circulate i through both, either, o r neither of said pipes, as may be desired. c i

The furnace A is provided with a smoke-pipe, a2, in the ordinary manner, and the boiler B is provided with a faucet, l1', through which the water contained in it may be drawn olf when required.

The tub D, into which the clothes are placed to be washed, is provided with a steam-pipe, F, the upper end of which is enlarged or has a close cap or head, f1, with a cone-shaped top attached to it, from the bottom of which, six small tubes or. pipes f? project downward-around the body of the pipe F, :as shown in figs. 1 and 2, so that the steam and water may be projected upon allpar'ts of the clothes placed inthe said tub around the said pipe F.

The base j"J of the pipe F is made with shallow scallops around its edge, and with angular depressions around each scallop, the partsof the edge vbetween the scallops being turned down to form feet for the said pipe to stand upon.

By this construction, the witter can readily escape from the tub, andilow back into `the boiler, to be again heated,- and again projected upon the clothes.

In using the apparatus for,washing-purposes, one of .the tubs or vessels is designed to be used simply as a hot-waterreservoir.v The-stop-cocksin the pipes connecting this tub with the upper audlower parts of the .boiler B, being opened, the water is allowed to circulate through the boiler, pipes, and tub or reservoir, until the water in said reservoir has beeir thoroughly heated. These stop-cocks are then closed and the others opened, allowing the hot water and steam to circulate through the boiler, pipes, pipe E, and the other tub, washing the clothes.

When the water has become dirty, it is drawn oil' through thefancet b', and hot water agaiu admitted lfrom the other tub or vessel D, to continue the operation. This construction also allows the clothes to be rinsed without removing them from lthetub.

Having thus described myinvention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters lPatent The arrangement of the tubs D, steam-,pipe F, fl, f2, f, and pipes Oand E, with referenceto ea'ch other and the boiler B and furnace A, `substantiall y as herein shown and described.

JOHN T. GROSE. Witnesses: i

D. C. PlnnsoN, WM. E. RUNsoN. 

